Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/05/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof
The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits.
Hope plays Painless Potter, a hopelessly inept dentist who heads west to seek his fortune. Meanwhile, buxom female outlaw
Calamity Jane (
Jane Russell) is engaged in undercover work on behalf of the government, in the hopes of earning a pardon for her past crimes. Jane is on the lookout for notorious gun-runner
Robert Armstrong. To put up an innocent front, Jane marries the befuddled Potter, then keeps the criminals at bay by convincing everyone that Potter is a rootin'-tootin' gunslinger (actually, it's Jane who's been doing all the shooting). Armstrong, who has been selling guns to the Indians, arranges for Jane to be captured by the scalp-hungry tribesmen, but Potter comes to the rescue. Somewhere along the way,
Bob Hope and
Jane Russell get to sing the Oscar-winning
Jay Livingston/
Ray Evans tune
"Buttons and Bows". There are many hilarious moments in
The Paleface, but screenwriter
Frank Tashlin felt that director
Norman Z. McLeod failed to get the full comic value out of his material. To prove his point,
Tashlin directed the side-splitting sequel,
Son of Paleface (1952), which once more teamed
Hope and
Russell.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Rootin', Tootin', Shootin' Western Comedy.
Bob Hope and Jane Russell team-up in this fun-frockling Western comedy with Hope as an inept dentist, who accompanies Calamity Jane (Russell) on a wagon train heading West and have a confrontation with Indians and gun-slinging outlaws. Be sure not to miss Hope serenading Jane with the Oscar-winning song, Buttons and Bows. Also starring Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Robert Watson, Jack Searl, Charles Trowbridge, Stanley Andrews, Clem Bevans, Jeff York, Iron Eyes Cody, Chief Yowlachie, Francis McDonald, Henry Brandon, Wade Crosby, Frank Hagney, Skelton Knaggs, and George Chandler.
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